Title : Video Girl Ai (Den'ei Shojo)
Artiste/Work : Masakazu Katsura
Published : 1989
Volume : 15 End
M©+square rating on VGA: 4.99/5 - 
Video Girl Ai Major
Characters
Yota "Dateless"* Moteuchi
Ai Amano_______
Takashi Niimai_______
Moemi Hayakawa_______
Nobuko Nizaki__
Natsumi Yamaguchi__
Oldman
Ai : "Why do you look so sad?
I see, unrequited love.
Don't let it get you down.
She just doesn't understand.
You've got a lot to offer.
I know I'm not much, but I'll do my best to cheer you up.
I see, it's that bad.
You really need me, right from the heart.
That's it! I'll stay with you for as long as it takes."
_
So saying, video girl Ai
Amano crawls out of Yota
Moteuchi's TV set, becoming a virtual girl to a real living
girl.
Moteuchi is thought of as a
loser at high school, so he is called Motenashi (or unpopular/dateless).
The only two people he hangs out with are his friend
Takashi Niimai, the way too
cool guy who has the opposite problem of Yota, and the cute Moemi. Yota has a crush on Moemi, but she has one on Takashi. Yota kicks himself when he accidentally
lets slip out Moemi's
feelings about Takashi in
front of the latter. When Takashi says "Sorry, you're not my type,"
it's a shot in the heart to both Moemi AND Yota.
Moemi is a pretty nice girl,
and she braves the episode through, although still nursing a crush
for Takashi. But while
Takashi won't do a thing to
return her feelings, to the point of being cruelly insensitive, so
too is Moemi clueless to how
Yota feels about her.
The short-haired, tomboyish, and huskily voiced Ai herself is quite a character. However,
she has only one month of playback time, and that means
Yota can't use his VCR, but
at least he won't get bored. Ai's mission is to get Yota and Moemi together. "She doesn't hate you, so
you've still got a chance," she tells him.
She also lists his good points, such as his constant worrying about
others and how despite her making him a yucky meal, he appreciates
the effort she put into it and eats it anyway.
The trouble begins when Yota
buys Ai a dress as a present
for her cheering him on.
A touched Ai says that video
girls aren't able to fall in love.
Yet a tear runs down her cheek as she thinks, "But...what is this
pain in my heart?" Result: she herself begins falling for
Yota, which is conduct
unbecoming a video girl.
After all, it goes against her purpose.
